A group of former employees of “Hydroaparat” OLC in Jrvezh sent a complaint letter to 9 presidential candidates and to the mass media. Today they organized a protest action in front of the Government building demanding to meet the Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan.

One of the stores, located in Abovyan town and known as “Chechen’s store” was closed today without any motivation. Broken windows of the store drew one’s attention. Witnesses tell that the incident took place yesterday, some unknown people tried to burn the store as a mark of revenge.

At the end of a long fight, the Swiss-Armenian Association has learnt with great satisfaction of the Federal Court's ruling published today that the President of the Party of Turkish Workers, Dogu Perinçek, has been condemned as guilty of racial discrimination

Despite today’s severe cold more than 1000 people gathered at “Theatrical” Square of Gyumri to voice support for “GALA” TV Company and freedom of expression.

Effective January 1, 2008, the application fee for a U.S. nonimmigrant visa will increase from $100 to $131. This increase allows the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy Yerevan to recover the costs of security and other enhancements to the non-immigrant visa application process.

Today residents of North and Main avenues assembled near the Government. They wanted to know the Prime Minister’s reply to their letter handed a few days earlier.

A fire broke out in 11 Dprotsakannner Street, the town of Tashir, at 00:15 December 19. A fire brigade immediately left for the scene.

A1+ referred to the family living under a bridge in Nerkin Charbakh district a week ago. 70-year-old Siranush Melikian dwells in a plank-house with her husband, daughter and three grandchildren.

The many people visit travel agencies on New Year eve. They want to spend the New Year and Christmas somewhere in Armenia or out of Armenia.

On 17 December 4-year-old Maria Hakobyan and 3-year-old Nvard Hakobyan, and 13-year-old Armen Ajamyan, residents of number 9 apartment on Chernushevski Street in Gyumri, were poisoned by gas and taken to the Austrian hospital in Gyumri.

Alaverdi’s copper-molybdenum factory will likely close down in 2008. The factory belongs to “ACP” CJSC. Local residents are seriously concerned over the factory’s impending closure as it feeds over 1100 families.

Residents of the “zone of realization” are no longer surprised at regular disconnection of electricity and gas.

At 2:14 p.m., December 15, an alarm was set that the resident living in the cellar of house 15, Chekhov Str., wasn't answering the door. At 2:25 rescuers found the corpse of David Arakelian, 1941, inside the cellar.

The “Supreme Council” Deputy Club appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to litigate “large-scale illegalities of the Public TV-Radio Company of Armenia.”

Today the independent commission dealing with the issues of detainees overruled the petition on releasing editor-in-chief of “Zhamanak Yerevan” (Yerevan Time) Arman Babajanian on probation.

Relatives of the crew of the YAK-40 crashed in the Islamic Republic of Iran May 17, 2001, held a protest action near the Armenian Government today.

Darkness falls upon Noragavit District at twilight. People hardly find the way because of poor illumination of the streets.

Terrorist act against the editorial office of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” endangers the freedom speech and the maintenance of pluralism in the country. The RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan condemned the explosion of the entry of the editorial office.

The Chief Editor of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” newspaper (Forth Power)” Shogher Matevosyan connects the explosion of the entrance door of the editorial office with their publications. She suspects two people - Head of the Erebuni district or the Prime Minister’s driver.

Another Armenian was killed in the Russian Federation a day ago. 23-year-old Vahagn left one of the restaurants in St Petersburg late at night, where they were marking his 16-year-old brother’s birthday. A group of men approached him in the street and stabbed with a knife and hit with an iron tube on the head.

Today the RA Government ignored the protest action of the citizens who were unjustly deprived of their properties. No Government representative came out to talk to the demonstrators.

“Today is open-door day at the editorial office of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” (Forth Power)”, said the director of the newspaper Mher Ghalechyan. Today the editorial office is without entrance door.

David Avetissian, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Armenia, was rescued while swimming in the Pacific Ocean near Chili.

On 12 December 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), acting as a neutral intermediary, facilitated the transfers of two civilians who had been detained in Baku and in Nagorny Karabakh respectively. The transfer took place in Agdam district of the Republic of Azerbaijan.